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Starting Well: Reflecting on the Orlando Fellows’ Inaugural Year

Any time a new initiative is started there can be confusion as to how it fits in with the whole, especially if the initiative is multi-faceted, and The Collaborative is no exception. While our branding, communication efforts, and public events...
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Love in the Workplace?

This week we will celebrate Valentine’s Day. While there is much dispute over the origins of this day, there is no doubt that soon after its creation Hallmark took a hold and ran with it. No, Hallmark does not shoulder...
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Art Challenge!

Are you up for a challenge? Whether or not taking in or creating beauty showed up on your new year’s resolutions list, this is a worthy endeavor. The Collaborative highly values the arts because it evokes something in us that...
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Missing a Milestone???

Our ability to successfully integrate our faith and work is not only predicated upon theology but also properly understanding the culture in which we live.  Most of us sense that “times are a changin”, but sometimes our hopeful optimism prevents...
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Do You Have A Dream?

At the beginning of this week we, as a nation, celebrated MLK Day. While not everyone received a day off, it would be hard to miss that much of our country was moving to a different rhythm this past Monday....
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I Am NOT Eloquent

I wanted to write this article with a sense of confidence. I wanted to be witty and colorful and entertaining. After about three or four “garbage attempts” to dress up my point, mountains of analogies, and English degree standbys in...
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Double Feature: Inside Amazon & Work Is Changing

Inside AmazonThis article by Dan Hitchens is a critique of a recent study done by James Bloodworth on the conditions and shenanigans of Amazon fulfillment centers in Europe. Why should this article be of interest to us?Americans tend to think...
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Redemptive Resolutions 2019

It is startling to me that 2019 is here...where did 2018 go? With the arrival of a new year comes hopeful expectations and enthusiasm. However, even though I was almost giddy for the arrival of 2018, I know I am...
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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas! In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1 (NKJV) ...Prepare the way of the Lord; Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley...
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Should Christians Abandon Christmas?

Recently, someone told me they had never heard of Sinclair Ferguson. My internal response was a groan, not in judgement, but rather out of sadness for what this person has been missing. Sinclair is a spiritual living giant that I...
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Advent and Work

By the time you read this blog, we will be well into Advent. It is a good thing for all of us to reflect on Advent and in the context of The Collaborative consider how it relates to work. Advent...
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Record Producer

Don’t you just love Christmas music? (I DO!)For a number of years, one of my favorite gifts to give close friends was my own Christmas CD. I never did those mixed tapes back in the day when that was the...

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